COMP1710 : Tools for New Media and the Web

6 unit course from the Department of Computer Science
2 hour formal lecture + 1 discussion/demo session + 2 hour lab, per week
A little Ad for the course and its version for a machine without QuickTime !
Assumed Knowledge
Books
Lecturer / Contact :  Pascal Vuylsteker
Lecture / Week Lecture Subject Readings / Exercises Handouts
1 / 1 Course organisation
  • Surf the Web
  • Chapter 1 (p6-30) of "Unusually useful web book"
  • No lab this week : register on Streams
2 / 1

The web and New Media, some context, history
disc / 1 No discussion this week
3 / 2 Web = Hypermedia + Internet / HTML
Internet : history and principles		 html
4 / 2
disc / 2 Feedback, questions, What about MacOSX and the first lab ? Join the mentoring scheme  
5 / 3

HTML (1)

html
6 / 3 CSS html
disc / 3 VARK  
7 / 4 CSS
  • Readings : Chapter 4 (pp 44 to 64) of "Unusually useful web book" : Know Your Users.
  • Lab 3 : CSS
 html
8 / 4

HTML Tables, Forms

 html
disc / 4 Tom Worthington : Web Crisis Management Abstract:Web Disaster Management, Lecture slides  
9 / 5 Forms / The role of Digitisation / Compression / formats html
10 / 5 Images on the Web html
disc / 5 Canberra Day First look at the Assignment : fill the declaration form  
11 / 6

Images on the Web

Video

  • Readings : Chapter 8 (pp 155 to 169) of "Unusually useful web book" : Understanding Design Technologies.
    Be critical of what you read : some part are outdated.

  • Lab 5: Images on the Web

html

html
12 / 6
disc / 6 Discuss the assignment and first chapters of the text book Assignment due on the 19th of May 2006 - fill the group form  
13 / 7

JavaScript

Monday session ; slow introduction to javascript with some examples. Be there if you haven't done any programming

Cf Readings

Some examples
14 / 7
disc / 8 QuickTimeVR and similar, panoramic images  Main Lecture on Monday this week !!!
15 / 8 Anzac Day : The Tuesday lecture will be spread on week 8 an 9 Monday sessions  
16 / 8
17 / 9

ManyPage

html
18 / 9

Architecture for a web site, Basic Navigation, notion of Template. Links and meta tags in the HTML HEAD
disc / 9 QuickTimeVR and similar,panoramic images    
disc / 10 Monday session, the 8th of May : Special Assignment Come with your question  
19 / 10

Cookies : Back to Javascript

The Web Wizard's guide to Javascript
20 / 10

Galerie template

Various : Sound and Spam

html
21 / 11 "WEB SERVERS" by Eric McCreath (pdf) Design and usability by Jacob Nielsen pdf 4slides/page
22 / 11 PHP, MySQL   pdf
23 / 11 XML, XHTML, XLST, RSS / Design and usability by Jacob Nielsen

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes
Ten Good Deeds in Web Design

pdf
24 / 12 Web 3D : VRML, X3D and Others / Some clues about the final exam   html